Senate Republicans reject White House plea on Iran

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Source: Politico

Senate Republicans are strongly rejecting a White House plea for a delay in a new round of economic sanctions against Iran and are vowing to move forward with additional restrictions over the country’s nuclear weapons program.

One Republican — Sen. Mark Kirk (Ill.) — angrily compared the Obama administration’s appeal to Neville Chamberlain’s “appeasement” of Nazi Germany before World War II.

Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and top officials from the State and Treasury departments held a classified briefing on Wednesday afternoon for members of the Senate Banking Committee in an attempt to preempt congressional action on sanctions while Western leaders negotiate with Iranian officials. That panel would take the lead on any Senate consideration of such legislation.

Yet Republicans on the committee — and a number of Senate Democrats — remain unconvinced by the White House’s position following the briefing.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/senate-republicans-white-house-iran-99818.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. And yet, who will get the blame for bombs dropping on Iran? They

are going to force us into war.

[Veilex]

2. I predict we get forced into yet another war before the end of Obama's term.

Republicans want those war profiteer dollars to finance their coming campaigns...

[lostincalifornia]

26. The only way that will happen if Congress declares it, which they won't

[Veilex]

27. I hope you're right...

[bushisanidiot]

28. Wouldn't it have to be both sides of congress and wouldn't the President have to go along with it?

I don't think the tea publicans can drag us all into a war with only one side of the house.

[MythosMaster]

3. I guess Kirk is now off my

"reasonable republicans" list... as the list gets smaller and smaller....

[QuestForSense]

14. Believe me, he was never reasonable, and this should prove it.

[MythosMaster]

22. Disagree, I receive his newsletters

and he is pretty good. I would take him over any other R Senator in congress if my state is stuck with and R for a Senator.

[QuestForSense]

24. I'm stuck with him (Illinois), but you can have him.

He was Bush's ass-kisser-in-chief for 8 years, and there's no rehab for that.

[MythosMaster]

25. I don't want him?

He has only been our Senator since 2011? He was in the house of reps bfore had representing a "conservative" district...

I am only saying he supports a lot of issues that go against the grain of the lunatic fringe of the teabaggers in crongreess. IE gay marriage, etc.

I would take him over a Lindsay Graham or Mitch McConnel any day if we had to have a R for a Senator.

[QuestForSense]

29. Well, he's no Tom Coburn, no Saxby Chambliss, no Jefferson Beauregard Sessions,

I'll give you that. Kirk is a far better politician, but make no mistake: he is just as pernicious.

[hollowdweller]

4. And most of them

Are the very same crew that totally ignored North Korea developing weapons in favor of going to war in Iraq based on lies.

The republicans are truly the biggest hypocrites on the planet!!!

Benghazi? Shit Fit. Allowing 9/11 to happen despite being warned? No problem.

Obama saying you can keep your coverage? Worth impeachment. "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" No problem

Obama crazy spending. Defict going down? Pivot to complaining about debt. Force shutdown. Tax cut and 2 wars that will destroy the surplus and put is into debt? NO PROBLEM.

[Purveyor]

5. Nicely put, indeed! +1 eom

[Old and In the Way]

20. Exactly,,

I can't believe this country allows this Party to get away with this bullshit.

[Ash_F]

6. Republicans make everything worse. /nt

[Jackpine Radical]

7. All we need is a few AIPAC-funded warhawks on the left side of the aisle, and…

It is enough to literally make me ill.

[karynnj]

16. That is why it might be good to sign competitor, J STREET's petition backing diplomacy

http://act.jstreet.org/sign/iran_negotiations/

From their Facebook page:

[Jackpine Radical]

17. I signed.

[karynnj]

18. Back in August/September, DU went crazy trying to stop an attack on Syria,

this is a chance for people to speak out just as loud because giving diplomacy the chance it needs might be as simple as NOT adding sanctions when there is a possible window of opportunity when diplomacy may be possible. Kerry's comment that we have negotiated more in the last 30 days than the last 30 years shows that this is a unigue time.

We all know that Netanyahu has AIPAC and other groups lobbying the Senate like crazy. J Street is newer, but from what a VT neighbor who visited Leahy and Welch while in DC for the JStreet conference said the legislators say that J Street has done a good job giving them the liberal Jewish view.

Not to mention, this is a time when progressives, who really do not want a war with Iran, should be lobbying their Senators. Many seem to be on the fence - especially Democrats.

[madrchsod]

8. no surprise

the senators who voted on this will not pay the consequences of thier actions.

[olddad56]

9. the Grand Obstructionist Party

[HijackedLabel]

10. Send their families to the front lines, unequipped...

for austerity.

[Arneoker]

11. I don't want Iran to get the Bomb, but...

It would be better that they get the Bomb than we go to war against them. We go all out against them, then we have to occupy them, making Vietnam look like a picnic. We unleash surgical strikes, then we at best delay them from getting the Bomb. Because if we strike them, they will do everything they can to get it, and will get it in a few years. It's not entirely clear that they are going for the Bomb now, they may just be going for the capability, and trying to fake us out.

Obama and Kerry should be tough negotiators, but if they don't offer the prospect of ending sanctions, then what's in it for Iran?

[Benton D Struckcheon]

12. Egg-sactly.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Mark Kirk is a neo-con. Make this clear.

He is a top target in 2016.

[QuestForSense]

15. Oh yes! He spent 8 years kissing the ass of George W. Bush & Co.

Funny how the stroke he had wiped the memory of that from everyone ELSE's memory.

[madville]

19. Doesn't sound like the Democrats were impressed either

No endorsements for the Administration's plan from any Democrats? Sounds like the Administration is Iran's only best friend in this situation. I think Kerry wants a deal, any deal, badly and would concede anything to be able to say he got something.

It's obvious the Administration is no fan of Israel and the Senate Republicans and most Democrats are all in Israel's pocket.

[leftynyc]

23. So many things wrong with your post

You all can blame Israel if you like but the most vocal country about this is France and if you don't know that, you should. Second, any President that has Rahm Emanuel and Jack Lew as their Chief of Staff is no enemy of Israel. The Dems and Reps that support Israel are, in every way, representing their constituency. Until the mullahs in Iran are no longer in charge of that country, they are not to be trusted.

[davidpdx]

21. I'm glad I didn't empty my trash in my email

Please write a letter to the editor:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/i-support-diplomacy-with?source=homepage